The other day I had a dream about checking in on some of the old PHPBB Forums that I used to visit. I won’t explain what the acronym PHPBB stands for.
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- 1 month
If you don’t explain what phpbb is, you aren’t getting an informed answer.
- 1 month
He’s special and wants to feel important. That’s the reason for not stating what phpbb stands for
- 1 month
phpBB is forum software written in PHP. It was notable for being free, whereas its contemporary competitors, Invision and vBulletin, cost money. They were all pretty popular in the 2000s and early 2010s before MySpace and Facebook kinda took everything over.
- 1 month
You are dating yourself with this comment, very soft dox I now know you are 25 at most
- 30 days
Nice try. The space shuttle exploded when I was in high school. My first computer was Windows 3.11
- 1 month
How do you feel a PHPBB differs from other bulletin boards?
Since you don’t care to elaborate on the acronym I can only assume it means something wildly different to you than the rest of us.
- 1 month
I don’t know what PHP stands for either, but BB stood for Bulletin Board. PHP is the programming language it was written in. You could have just said forums and been more accurate; most people know what those are.
But no, Lemmy is not like a forum, it’s like a more liberal Reddit, which was like Digg but more expansive, and Digg, in turn, was like a better Fark (though, some will fight you for saying that). All of those are news aggregators. Forums work differently.
Forums are still around, but they aren’t as popular as they once were.
Also, “won’t” and “can’t” do not mean the same thing. “Can’t” is kind of a funny concept when it comes to knowledge on the Internet. For example, a DuckDuckGo search quickly reveals that PHP used to stand for “Personal Home Page” but now stands for “PHP Hypertext Preprocessor.” But never mind that, it’s a scripting/programming language for websites and forums and things like that.
- toynbee@piefed.socialEnglish1 month
IIRC it’s a recursive acronym. PHP Hypertext Preprocessor.
(Disclaimer: I remembered “preprocessing” but thought that was wrong so originally put just “processor” until I looked it up.)
- 1 month
No, bb forums were like one singular sub/instance with lots of dedicated people and like 3 ‘off topic’ sections for the fans of that subject to talk about nothing.
- HubertManne@piefed.socialEnglish1 month
I never used them. did the old usenet back in the day but really was pretty limited on dialup stuff.
30 daysI sort by “new comments” specifically so it feels more like an old phpbb forum.
- 1 month
I wasnt a huge bb guy but I’d say no. Lemmy doesnt have the same discussion style as a fourm. Much more drive by commenters and discussion always ends up offtopic or repetitive. But in the positive the freedom allows a lower barrier of entry so more different perspectives and a much more enjoyable posting experience day to day. Getting bitched at by mods or spending an hour crafting a response is a bit much these days.
Yep, that checks out. I meant it in a positive way but the interactions so far feel very nostalgic. We used to say LMGTFY.
- 1 month
What we didn’t do is say in our original posts “if you don’t know what Im talking about, fuck you, I don’t care.”
